Brain Research and Imaging Centre, Plymouth
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BRIC has now moved to Bluesky from X. We'll leave the X account in place for now, but focus our activities on highlighting work by BRIC researchers using #MRI, #EEG, and transcranial focused ultrasound #tFUS. #neuroscience #PsychSciSky #neuroskyance
Fascinating stuff!
Thalamus for vision BCIs
Scientists have recorded single neurons in the human LGN for the first time, revealing how it links the retina to visual cortex. When one eye is closed, neurons tuned to that eye reduce their activity, while neurons tuned to the open eye increase in spikerate
#neuroskyence
Scientists have recorded single neurons in the human LGN for the first time, revealing how it links the retina to visual cortex. When one eye is closed, neurons tuned to that eye reduce their activity, while neurons tuned to the open eye increase in spikerate
#neuroskyence
Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons - Nature Communications
The LGN is a critical stage between the retina and visual cortex, but the properties of human LGN neurons are not fully understood. Here the authors report that they closely resemble those in monkeys ...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Fascinating stuff!
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How do we learn and know?
Attend this Meet-the-Expert webinar to learn about cognition through studies of spatially tuned cells and synaptic plasticity.
Register now: vist.ly/4g4ze
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Attend this Meet-the-Expert webinar to learn about cognition through studies of spatially tuned cells and synaptic plasticity.
Register now: vist.ly/4g4ze
#neurosky #neuroskyence
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
How do we learn and know?
Attend this Meet-the-Expert webinar to learn about cognition through studies of spatially tuned cells and synaptic plasticity.
Register now: vist.ly/4g4ze
#neurosky #neuroskyence
Attend this Meet-the-Expert webinar to learn about cognition through studies of spatially tuned cells and synaptic plasticity.
Register now: vist.ly/4g4ze
#neurosky #neuroskyence
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Insular neural interfaces
Cognitive error signals in the anterior insula propagate toward prefrontal cortex when a BCI fails to follow the user’s intention. Real-time integration enables a self-correcting neural interface that compensates for its own decoder misclassifications
#neuroskyence
Cognitive error signals in the anterior insula propagate toward prefrontal cortex when a BCI fails to follow the user’s intention. Real-time integration enables a self-correcting neural interface that compensates for its own decoder misclassifications
#neuroskyence
Insular error network enables self-correcting intracranial brain-computer interface
Error recognition is fundamental to adaptive behavior, enabling rapid compensatory action when outcomes deviate from expectations. Central to this function are neural circuits for performance monitori...
www.biorxiv.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Insular neural interfaces
Cognitive error signals in the anterior insula propagate toward prefrontal cortex when a BCI fails to follow the user’s intention. Real-time integration enables a self-correcting neural interface that compensates for its own decoder misclassifications
#neuroskyence
Cognitive error signals in the anterior insula propagate toward prefrontal cortex when a BCI fails to follow the user’s intention. Real-time integration enables a self-correcting neural interface that compensates for its own decoder misclassifications
#neuroskyence
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🎉 CHT researchers and colleagues from across the health professions have had their paper accepted for a conference presentation at EXPLAINABILITY 2025, The Second International Conference on Systems Explainability, where it will subsequently be published in a conference collection! 🔗
EXPLAINABILITY 2025
www.iaria.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🎉 CHT researchers and colleagues from across the health professions have had their paper accepted for a conference presentation at EXPLAINABILITY 2025, The Second International Conference on Systems Explainability, where it will subsequently be published in a conference collection! 🔗
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📢 CHT is thrilled to share that PEC has published a new paper by Dr Kieran Green, Dr John Downey and Prof Sheena Asthana exploring the foundational philosophy behind “what matters to you” conversations in healthcare and patient care.
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/5KXigdf
#CHT #UoP
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/5KXigdf
#CHT #UoP
"Mattering" is the foundation of identifying 'What Matters' in patient care
The dates displayed for an article provide information on when various publication milestones were reached at the journal that has published the article. Where applicable, activities on preceding…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📢 CHT is thrilled to share that PEC has published a new paper by Dr Kieran Green, Dr John Downey and Prof Sheena Asthana exploring the foundational philosophy behind “what matters to you” conversations in healthcare and patient care.
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/5KXigdf
#CHT #UoP
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/5KXigdf
#CHT #UoP
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The debate on evidence accumulation in decisions continues, well done to @laurencf.bsky.social and @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social for this inspiring preprint validating our earlier work on neural correlates of evidence accumulation in value-based decisions.
Interested in how we make preference-driven decisions, and how this is implemented in the brain?
We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong)
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We report that neural correlates of evidence accumulation (CPP, Mu/Beta) are also observed during value-based decisions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Led by @laurencf.bsky.social (Lauren Fong)
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Tracing the neural trajectories of evidence accumulation and motor preparation processes during voluntary decisions
Voluntary decisions have previously been described by where they arise in the brain and how actions corresponding to one's choice are prepared. However, the processes by which these internally guided ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The debate on evidence accumulation in decisions continues, well done to @laurencf.bsky.social and @danfeuerriegel.bsky.social for this inspiring preprint validating our earlier work on neural correlates of evidence accumulation in value-based decisions.
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My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic - Nature Neuroscience
Li et al. propose a conceptual framework to study the phenomenon of falling asleep based on electroencephalogram data. They show that a tipping point marks the brain’s nonlinear wake-to-sleep transiti...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My co-authors have yet to move to Bluesky, so I'm pleased to announce our latest work has just been published in @nature.com Neuroscience. Amazing work led by Junheng Li, revealing that falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation pattern #neuroskyence #sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🌟 #CHT November Researcher of the Month 🌟
This month, we’re celebrating Professor Ray Jones as the November Researcher of the Month! Ray is one of the founding members of the Centre for Health Technology and a pioneer in digital health. 👏
Read more about Ray's work on LinkedIn: buff.ly/oId1wKf
This month, we’re celebrating Professor Ray Jones as the November Researcher of the Month! Ray is one of the founding members of the Centre for Health Technology and a pioneer in digital health. 👏
Read more about Ray's work on LinkedIn: buff.ly/oId1wKf
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🌟 #CHT November Researcher of the Month 🌟
This month, we’re celebrating Professor Ray Jones as the November Researcher of the Month! Ray is one of the founding members of the Centre for Health Technology and a pioneer in digital health. 👏
Read more about Ray's work on LinkedIn: buff.ly/oId1wKf
This month, we’re celebrating Professor Ray Jones as the November Researcher of the Month! Ray is one of the founding members of the Centre for Health Technology and a pioneer in digital health. 👏
Read more about Ray's work on LinkedIn: buff.ly/oId1wKf
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A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing.
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorder
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing.
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
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A recent report of a brain injury during a clinical trial using transcranial ultrasound (TUS) has prompted the case reviewers Kim Butts Pauly and @efouragnan.bsky.social to make their concerns public. If you are interested in TUS read their letter here: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog shorturl.at/SUmix
Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorder
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A recent report of a brain injury during a clinical trial using transcranial ultrasound (TUS) has prompted the case reviewers Kim Butts Pauly and @efouragnan.bsky.social to make their concerns public. If you are interested in TUS read their letter here: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog shorturl.at/SUmix
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📢 Submissions are now open for the 2026 Autobiographical Processing & Psychopathology Conference, at the University of Plymouth 🌊 on 23rd - 24th June 2026 🎉!
📌Visit the #APP2026 website for more details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/aut...
📬Join our mailing list: stats.sender.net/forms/bqxQO0...
📌Visit the #APP2026 website for more details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/aut...
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Autobiographical Processing and Psychopathology Conference 2026
What's on at the University of Plymouth: Autobiographical Processing and Psychopathology Conference 2026. Special interest meeting. University of...
www.plymouth.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📢 Submissions are now open for the 2026 Autobiographical Processing & Psychopathology Conference, at the University of Plymouth 🌊 on 23rd - 24th June 2026 🎉!
📌Visit the #APP2026 website for more details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/aut...
📬Join our mailing list: stats.sender.net/forms/bqxQO0...
📌Visit the #APP2026 website for more details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/aut...
📬Join our mailing list: stats.sender.net/forms/bqxQO0...
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🎃 Halloween meets sleep science💤:
Our ECSM team's “Polysomnography Pumpkin” brought sleep science to the spooky season - earning second place at Oxford’s Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building Games!
Brains, electrodes, and a few spiders included.🧠
Our ECSM team's “Polysomnography Pumpkin” brought sleep science to the spooky season - earning second place at Oxford’s Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building Games!
Brains, electrodes, and a few spiders included.🧠
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🎃 Halloween meets sleep science💤:
Our ECSM team's “Polysomnography Pumpkin” brought sleep science to the spooky season - earning second place at Oxford’s Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building Games!
Brains, electrodes, and a few spiders included.🧠
Our ECSM team's “Polysomnography Pumpkin” brought sleep science to the spooky season - earning second place at Oxford’s Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building Games!
Brains, electrodes, and a few spiders included.🧠
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Headquartered in Lyon, France, Focal One specializes in high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for prostate cancer, but the company has been expanding into several new clinical areas, including endometriosis and pancreatic cancer. Learn more: https://ow.ly/puZ550XkubP
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Headquartered in Lyon, France, Focal One specializes in high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for prostate cancer, but the company has been expanding into several new clinical areas, including endometriosis and pancreatic cancer. Learn more: https://ow.ly/puZ550XkubP
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🎉Great to see so many staff and students attend our first departmental talk of the new academic year. Thanks to our very own Dr Charles Or for kicking the season off with a fascinating talk on "Identifying faces under imperfect conditions"😷. 📌See our upcoming School of Psychology talks here.
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🎉Great to see so many staff and students attend our first departmental talk of the new academic year. Thanks to our very own Dr Charles Or for kicking the season off with a fascinating talk on "Identifying faces under imperfect conditions"😷. 📌See our upcoming School of Psychology talks here.
Our brand new LinkedIn page can be found here. www.linkedin.com/company/brai...
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October 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Our brand new LinkedIn page can be found here. www.linkedin.com/company/brai...
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Had a great time last week presenting at the @biswg-uk.bsky.social annual conference speaking about the Brain Injury Social Care Network Incubator and the follow up to our Heads Together project
September 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Had a great time last week presenting at the @biswg-uk.bsky.social annual conference speaking about the Brain Injury Social Care Network Incubator and the follow up to our Heads Together project
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📅 September Wrap-Up | Centre for Health Technology
🏛️September has been a milestone month at CHT, from formal Centre status to new NHS partnerships, publications & exciting new collaborations!
👉 Read the full wrap-up on LinkedIn: buff.ly/M5tJZcJ
📢 Follow #CHT for all updates!
🏛️September has been a milestone month at CHT, from formal Centre status to new NHS partnerships, publications & exciting new collaborations!
👉 Read the full wrap-up on LinkedIn: buff.ly/M5tJZcJ
📢 Follow #CHT for all updates!
Physiological evidence of escalating stress during COVID-19: a longitudinal assessment of child welfare workers
Studies have shown that stress has contributed to employee turnover and retention problems for agencies, and at the individual level, chronic stress has been associated with coronary heart disease,...
tandfonline.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📅 September Wrap-Up | Centre for Health Technology
🏛️September has been a milestone month at CHT, from formal Centre status to new NHS partnerships, publications & exciting new collaborations!
👉 Read the full wrap-up on LinkedIn: buff.ly/M5tJZcJ
📢 Follow #CHT for all updates!
🏛️September has been a milestone month at CHT, from formal Centre status to new NHS partnerships, publications & exciting new collaborations!
👉 Read the full wrap-up on LinkedIn: buff.ly/M5tJZcJ
📢 Follow #CHT for all updates!
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Such a privilege to be part of a @plymuni.bsky.social
inter-professional learning event yesterday which brought together students from across different health programmes to work together with experts by experience with a range of physical & mental health issues, with help from Well Connected SW
inter-professional learning event yesterday which brought together students from across different health programmes to work together with experts by experience with a range of physical & mental health issues, with help from Well Connected SW
October 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Such a privilege to be part of a @plymuni.bsky.social
inter-professional learning event yesterday which brought together students from across different health programmes to work together with experts by experience with a range of physical & mental health issues, with help from Well Connected SW
inter-professional learning event yesterday which brought together students from across different health programmes to work together with experts by experience with a range of physical & mental health issues, with help from Well Connected SW
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Colleague Angela Piccini is collaborating with Ruby Nation, researching the histories of lesbian lives in Plymouth, UK. Please support this free event at the wonderful The Box, Plymouth @theboxplymouth.bsky.social
INTERNATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY
18.10.2025
11.00-15.00
THE BOX
Free event!
www.linkedin.com/posts/angela... Are there lesbians in your attic? Come to The Box for International Home Movie Day to celebrate Plymouth’s lesbian past and present! www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/
[Img: CND protest © The Box]
18.10.2025
11.00-15.00
THE BOX
Free event!
www.linkedin.com/posts/angela... Are there lesbians in your attic? Come to The Box for International Home Movie Day to celebrate Plymouth’s lesbian past and present! www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/
[Img: CND protest © The Box]
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Colleague Angela Piccini is collaborating with Ruby Nation, researching the histories of lesbian lives in Plymouth, UK. Please support this free event at the wonderful The Box, Plymouth @theboxplymouth.bsky.social
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Very nice new framework for social games flexibly combining continuous social interactions with their sensorimotor implementation. A wonderful work of @violapriesemann.bsky.social and colleagues.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Dyadic Interaction Platform: A novel tool to study transparent social interactions
elifesciences.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Very nice new framework for social games flexibly combining continuous social interactions with their sensorimotor implementation. A wonderful work of @violapriesemann.bsky.social and colleagues.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Excited for a huge #EABCT2025, kicking off now! 🎉🌟🎊👏 Lovely opening by @blackwellse.bsky.social 👏.
September 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Excited for a huge #EABCT2025, kicking off now! 🎉🌟🎊👏 Lovely opening by @blackwellse.bsky.social 👏.
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🎉 Congrats to Dr John Downey and Dr Nicole Thomas on their new publication scoping how coproduction is used in practice by non-academic organisations!
The work highlights how coproduction work is still superficial and may not be representative of true participatory approaches.
🔗
The work highlights how coproduction work is still superficial and may not be representative of true participatory approaches.
🔗
Grey literature scoping review: a synthesis of the application of participatory methodologies in underrepresented groups at an elevated risk of dementia - BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background Diverse populations are more exposed to life course influences on adverse ageing, including brain ageing. Research into dementia in the United Kingdom inadvertently lacks diversity.…
link.springer.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🎉 Congrats to Dr John Downey and Dr Nicole Thomas on their new publication scoping how coproduction is used in practice by non-academic organisations!
The work highlights how coproduction work is still superficial and may not be representative of true participatory approaches.
🔗
The work highlights how coproduction work is still superficial and may not be representative of true participatory approaches.
🔗
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👏 Congrats to Dr Oliver Beer & colleagues from Western Kentucky & University of Kentucky! Their article on child welfare worker stress during COVID-19 received an Honorable Mention for Article of the Year from the Journal of Public Child Welfare.
🔗 buff.ly/lCHzYkl
#CHT #UoP
🔗 buff.ly/lCHzYkl
#CHT #UoP
Physiological evidence of escalating stress during COVID-19: a longitudinal assessment of child welfare workers
Studies have shown that stress has contributed to employee turnover and retention problems for agencies, and at the individual level, chronic stress has been associated with coronary heart disease,...
buff.ly
September 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
👏 Congrats to Dr Oliver Beer & colleagues from Western Kentucky & University of Kentucky! Their article on child welfare worker stress during COVID-19 received an Honorable Mention for Article of the Year from the Journal of Public Child Welfare.
🔗 buff.ly/lCHzYkl
#CHT #UoP
🔗 buff.ly/lCHzYkl
#CHT #UoP
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The study involved 506 young people aged 10-14 across UK schools.
Press release with more details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/why-do-...
@plymuni.bsky.social
@plymouthpsychology.bsky.social
Press release with more details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/why-do-...
@plymuni.bsky.social
@plymouthpsychology.bsky.social
Why do young people buy loot boxes in video games?
University of Plymouth news: Researchers from the University have said a tool designed to understand why young video gamers purchase loot boxes could...
www.plymouth.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The study involved 506 young people aged 10-14 across UK schools.
Press release with more details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/why-do-...
@plymuni.bsky.social
@plymouthpsychology.bsky.social
Press release with more details: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/why-do-...
@plymuni.bsky.social
@plymouthpsychology.bsky.social